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Cincydawg

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Re: OT - Weird History
« Reply #5264 on: July 15, 2025, 02:16:07 PM »
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« Reply #5265 on: July 15, 2025, 06:15:02 PM »
I remember my family's first color TV - around 1970
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« Reply #5266 on: July 15, 2025, 09:27:35 PM »
'68 Sylvania,it use to fade out and you'd have to get an pop it on the lower right hand side then it would come back in focus for like 45 minutes
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« Reply #5267 on: July 16, 2025, 09:00:16 AM »
1519 Public debate between Martin Luther and theologian Johann Eck at Pleissenburg Castle in Liepzig, during which Luther denies the divine right of the Pope

1661 First banknotes in Europe are issued by the Bank of Stockholm

1790 Congress declares the city of Washington in the District of Columbia, the permanent capital of the United States

1882 Mary Todd Lincoln & wife of Abraham Lincoln and US First Lady (1861-65), dies of a stroke at 63

1887 "Shoeless" Joe Jackson, American baseball outfielder (World Series 1917 Chicago White Sox; 1919 Black Sox Scandal), born in Pickens County, South Carolina

1902 John McGraw officially becomes manager of MLB New York Giants; 30 year tenure begins (1902-32)

1907 American popcorn magnate Orville Redenbacher, born in Brazil, Indiana

1909 MLB Detroit Tigers and Washington Senators play longest scoreless game in AL history - 18 innings at Bennett Field in Detroit, Michigan

1943 Jimmy Johnson HOF College-Pro Football coach National Championship 1987 University of Miami; Super Bowl XXVII, XXVIII Dallas Cowboys; Miami Dolphins, born in Port Arthur, Texas

1956 Detroit Tigers & Briggs Stadium sold for then record $5.5 million

1967 Will Ferrell comic actor and writer, born in Irvine, California

1967 American pop-rock group "The Monkees" perform at Forest Hills Tennis Stadium in Queens, New York, with psychedelic rock Jimi Hendrix Experience as opening act;(indeed weird)

1967 British rock band "The Who" begin 1st full US tour, appearing at the Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco, California, and then going coast-to-coast opening for Herman's Hermits(just as weird)

1968 Barry Sanders,College and Pro Football Hall of Fame running back Oklahoma State & Detroit Lions, born in Wichita, Kansas

1999 John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife Carolyn Bessette Kennedy and sister-in-law Lauren Bessette are killed in a plane crash off the coast of Martha's Vineyard; the Piper Saratoga aircraft was piloted by Kennedy

2004 Martha Stewart is sentenced to five months in prison plus five months in home confinement for lying to federal investigators (and Pelosi roams free)

2023 Highest temperature ever recorded in China of 52.2 C (126 F) at Sanbao township in Xinjiang's Turpan Depression
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« Reply #5268 on: July 16, 2025, 09:10:09 AM »
THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 

District of Columbia Established as US Capital (1790)
Adopted in 1787, the US Constitution allowed for the establishment of a capital city that could govern itself, but it did not stipulate a location. While it was agreed that the capital should not be in any one state, its placement was hotly debated. In 1790, Congress struck a compromise between the North and South, establishing a capital on the Potomac River. The exact location was chosen by President George Washington.
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« Reply #5269 on: July 16, 2025, 10:51:58 AM »
80 years ago today the world changed forever around dawn in the New Mexico desert.
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« Reply #5270 on: July 16, 2025, 10:57:48 AM »
Quote from: medinabuckeye1 on July 16, 2025, 10:51:58 AM
80 years ago today the world changed forever around dawn in the New Mexico desert.
First documented alien landing at Roswell?
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« Reply #5271 on: July 16, 2025, 12:02:34 PM »
Quote from: medinabuckeye1 on July 16, 2025, 10:51:58 AM
80 years ago today the world changed forever around dawn in the New Mexico desert.

20 years ago, I heard it said that the world had changed more in the last 80 years than it did between 0 A.D. and the 80-yr-ago cutoff point.  I don't know how that was measured nor can I attest to the veracity of that statement, but the main point was the technological aspect.

I think about how much technology has progressed in daily life in the last 20 years and I have no doubts that the world my grandmother was born into 100 yrs ago was more similar to the Roman Empire than what we have today, despite how many advances had come along during that 1900 years.  
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« Reply #5272 on: July 16, 2025, 12:27:30 PM »
Quote from: utee94 on July 16, 2025, 10:57:48 AM
First documented alien landing at Roswell?
LoL.


Roswell was late 40s, I think. July 16, 1945 was the first Atomic blast.
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« Reply #5273 on: July 16, 2025, 01:06:25 PM »
FWIW:
If you get the chance, the Trinity site is only open one or two days a year but it is interesting to see.
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Re: OT - Weird History
« Reply #5274 on: July 17, 2025, 07:22:41 AM »
Quote from: MikeDeTiger on July 16, 2025, 12:02:34 PM
I think about how much technology has progressed in daily life in the last 20 years and I have no doubts that the world my grandmother was born into 100 yrs ago was more similar to the Roman Empire than what we have today, despite how many advances had come along during that 1900 years. 
I've mentioned my Dad, born in 1917 in a house with no electricity, saw his first car in 1925.  For him, civilization was barely different from what it was in 0 AD technologically.  They had decent mail service, though slow of course.  The main highway over the mountains to where he lived was completed in 1927 or so.  It's still there.

He passed away in 2010.  
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Re: OT - Weird History
« Reply #5275 on: July 17, 2025, 07:25:32 AM »


Andy Griffith, owner of a 53-acre tract in Manteo, North Carolina, disks the soil at his vacation home to prepare for the planting of a stand of cedar trees.

1952 Ford 8N tractor

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« Reply #5276 on: July 17, 2025, 08:28:12 AM »
THIS DAY IN HISTORY:

"Wrong Way" Corrigan Flies from New York to Ireland (1938)
In 1938, American aviator Douglas "Wrong Way" Corrigan made his infamous, unauthorized transatlantic flight from New York to Ireland. He claimed that during a planned flight to California, foggy conditions and a misread compass made him fly thousands of miles in the wrong direction without noticing. In the years leading up to his "navigational error," he had applied several times for permission to make the transoceanic trip, but was always rejected.
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« Reply #5277 on: July 17, 2025, 08:38:42 AM »
Quote from: Cincydawg on July 17, 2025, 07:25:32 AM
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Andy Griffith, owner of a 53-acre tract in Manteo, North Carolina, disks the soil at his vacation home to prepare for the planting of a stand of cedar trees.

1952 Ford 8N tractor
I learned to drive on a 1948 8N. Great tractor!
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